Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.

On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.

As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.